Ivo Andric
Ivo Andric
Ivo Andrićwas a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 October 1892
CityTravnik, Bosnia And Herzegovina
men law doe
That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
beautiful song men
Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
men together saws
Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.
ocean men knowing
To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.
dark men years
There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.
eye men bridges
Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.
awaken loses patience sorrow wakes
What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up.
worry conspiracy revolt
There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
desperate worthless
When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
sad sadness kind
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
blood world paper
They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.
philosophy bridges towns
They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none the less it lasted and endured 'like the bridge on the Drina'.
country hatred bosnia
Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.
sleep waiting sorrow
What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.